How many users?

I was wondering about this too so I'm glad some one asked.

Very much the experience of being an SRD fan you hope for more but you know it'll change things the moment they arrive!

What usually happens with these things is that there will be a large number of 'lurkers' who use the site as regularly as registered users but don't want to contribute for whatever reason. Some may be forum shy or fairly unfamiliar to using a PC. Others will just be happy to read the contributions. One thing that the Admin and I discussed when he set-up the site was to make sure it was as inclusive as possible, as RLFans had become toxic for many different reasons. We wanted a clean slate where not only existing RLFans members could come, but those that just lurked because of the toxic nature of RLFans would feel like contributing. Obviously, with a clean start comes the opportunity to appeal to fans through social media who had never registered on a forum before.

I do pop on to read and contribute to other teams forums on RLFans as there is some decent people still there. I occasionally go on the ST but it's getting rarer. There's a steady stream of new users this season and I can't help think that the clubs fortunes on the field have a knock-on feelgood factor online.

ST is the Scarlett Turkey, the rather odd name for the old RLFans Salford board, in it's day it was brilliant but we had a flat earth fantasist, an Italian plumber and the resident Castleford legal eagle who helped contribute to making it more toxic than Hillbilly_Reds undies after a night on the old fursty ferret in the Cumber and Hearing Aid

Good stats and a decent mix of ages, however shame there's not more of the 18-24 bracket knocking about but I presume they're all busy studying and on the lash. Whereas the majority of us who are regular posters work in offices.

Forums are a bit of a relic, so it doesn’t surprise me. Perhaps if this was a subreddit there might be more in that age bracket. The gender split is a bit more surprising.